12.08.2006 Interview of Noam Chomsky at MIT where he has been studying and working for more than 5 decades. Excerpt of the recording will be made available soon.
诺曼·乔姆斯基是现代语言学的创始人。政治评论家和社会活动家。英国著名的《前景》杂志为纪念创刊十周年,会同美国《外交政策》杂志进行了一次网络调查,评选全球最具影响力的100名公共知识分子。日前,两份杂志公布了评选结果,美国著名的语言学家诺曼·乔姆斯基被评为当代最伟大公共知识分子。
Noam Chomsky Intro (from wikipedia)
Noam Chomsky, Ph.D (born December 7, 1928) is the Institute Professor Emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Chomsky is credited with the creation of the theory of generative grammar, considered to be one of the most significant contributions to the field of theoretical linguistics made in the 20th century. He also helped spark the cognitive revolution in psychology through his review of B.F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior, in which he challenged the behaviorist approach to the study of mind and language dominant in the 1950s. His naturalistic approach to the study of language has also affected the philosophy of language and mind. He is also credited with the establishment of the Chomsky–Schützenberger hierarchy, a classification of formal languages in terms of their generative power.
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